Gen Zers Are Flocking To NYC Art Schools
The surge comes as many young adults grapple with fears about the impacts of artificial intelligence, a sense of internet overload and a desire...
How Trump’s BBBill Will Impact Non-Profits
Provisions in the new law raise unsettling questions about how the nonprofit world will be affected — and the answers may not be known...
Creative Tree Of The Year?
Ten nominees have been chosen to meet this year’s theme of “rooted in culture”, which seeks to highlight how trees inspire creative minds and...
Kyoto’s Overtourism Problem May Be Even Worse Than Amsterdam’s Or Barcelona’s
“Last year, more tourists visited Kyoto than Barcelona, Amsterdam, or even Paris. … (It's a) conundrum with no obvious solutions. Tokyo and Osaka are...
The Struggle For Pregnancy Protections And Parental Leave In The Ballet World
“Because the policies that do exist vary so widely, dancers can be impacted in different ways depending on which company they’re a part of;...
Famous Art Detective Arthur Brand Recovers Stolen Documents So Historic That They’re UNESCO-Listed
The cache of papers, dating from the 15th through the 19th centuries, was stolen from the National Archives of the Netherlands in 2015. Among...
How Websites Are Coping With The Collapse In Referred Traffic
“The problem started with Facebook pivoting away from the news in 2022, and has accelerated in recent months as Google makes seemingly corrosive changes...
Does America Really Have A Youth Literacy Crisis?
“How much panic over kids’ literacy is warranted? Scholars who study the subject, concerned English professors, and experts in the ‘kids these days’ phenomenon...
Is A Deal At Hand To Return The Parthenon Marbles? Britain’s Right Wing Sure...
“The former prime minister Liz Truss and a hard-right lobby group have been accused of stoking culture wars after reportedly writing a letter claiming...
Gilberto Gil, Giant Of Brazilian Music, Has Retired From Live Performance
“I’ll always have my guitar, my inseparable companion,” said the 83-year-old. “But my relationship with it will be more open, freer. It’s simpler when...
Is The Summer Group Show Disappearing From Art Galleries? No, But …
“Some have wondered if the group show is fated to die out altogether. But in talking to dealers and advisers, it seems less like the once-ubiquitous...
How Leisure Became Digital
For many Canadians, play has migrated from board games or the rec leagues to smartphone screens. It’s no longer confined to the weekend or...
How The Grateful Dead Made Live Music Sound Great At Concerts
Phil Spector had famously created a figurative wall of sound by layering instruments and orchestral sweeps. But the Dead’s wall was essentially a behemoth...
Australia’s New Funding Body For Literature And Writers: What Will It Actually Be Doing?
“On the surface, this is welcome news for Australian writers with its funding package of $26 million ($8.6 million per year) over the next...
HBO Returns, Conceding Its Brand Change Was A Colossal Blunder
The gambit to chase Netflix with a service called Max didn’t work. Warner Bros. Discovery’s leaders eventually recognized the tremendous value in the HBO...
YouTube Is Being Overwhelmed By AI Slop. So Some New Creator Rules…
Alphabet has to acknowledge not only the downsides of AI, but its potential to overwhelm platforms that rely on user-generated content—in other words, rein...
Roadshow: America’s Midwest Art Museums
Arriving at art museums after four or five hours on these roads, day after day, is reliably uplifting. Everything is reversed. You’re in a...
Japan Has A Big Ballet-Fan Community. Now It’s Working On Homegrown Ballet.
“Until recently, that audience lavished attention mostly on prestigious foreign companies that tour Japan regularly, such as the Paris Opera Ballet and the Royal...
Actors Unions Approve New Video Game Contract, Ending Strike
As with the dual strikes in 2023, artificial intelligence was a big sticking point in negotiations. As such, the new contract establishes performer safety guardrails and...
Training A New Generation Of Dancers For A Different Kind Of Career
"Today’s young adults have also been through the Covid shutdown, and they’re starting their careers at a time of huge financial uncertainty." - ArtsATL
My Nightmare Job Taking Care Of Patricia Highsmith
“Pat was seventy-four and knew she was about to die. ... I was trapped in her world with her, trembling. She had weeks left...
The Bayeux Tapestry To Return To UK – First Time In 1000 Years
Art historian Linda Neagley has argued that pre-Renaissance people interacted with art visually, kinaesthetically (sensory perception through bodily movement) and physically. The Bayeux tapestry would have...
Bay Area Theatres Are Folding. The Theatre Landscape Is Collapsing
"We, in the nonprofit theater world, rely on a model that is really not working for anybody. It wasn’t working before the pandemic. The...
Trump-Announced TikTok Sale Raises Questions
M2 appears to be an end-run around this issue, allowing ByteDance to pour in those ingredients but then step away to let Americans run...
The Company Making Big Operas Work In A Small Theater
Des Moines Metro Opera performs in a house with only 476 seats, yet it has a track record of successfully staging such large-scale works...
